Capture The Dancer

Matt and I held our interview, and then he worked at the bakery with our equipment guy while I worked in Cville Coffee.

I got a tea as my ‘rent’ : )

MY OTHER RECIPES

Matt came back over at 5:30 and told me he thought the equipment would take at least another 2 hours. I debated what to do for dinner.

Home for eggs + toast?

Salad on the go?

Fancy restaurant by myself?

Pizza?

Turns out that Faith + Tate were going for pizza, so I drove downtown and joined them. We had made tentative plans for dinner and a dance show tonight anyways.

My very first visit to the famous Christian’s Pizza!

ALL they have is big slices of pizza that they heat up on the spot. They don’t have salads or any sides, so I was waiting for the perfect time to go, and tonight was it!

I got a big slice of the roasted vegetable – with eggplant, peppers, olives, spinach, and garlic. The cheese was added on when they heated it up (so it could possibly be vegan!) and I got majorly jipped. There wasn’t enough and it was quite bland.

But it was big and I appreciated all the veggies –

Long like a snake that never ends!

BYO sparkling water!

Dinner for $4!

After dinner we did end up going to the dance show – a trio of modern dancers at Second Street Gallery.

We got to sit in these comfy floor chairs!

The first piece was done with trash from the Gallery’s office. It was quite interesting – she was wearing a bathing suit and a trash bag!

At the beginning of the second dance, the dancer came onto the stage and said:

“We would love some images of the show, so if you have a camera, please feel free to photograph”

I think she knew I had a camera burning a hole in my bag! But I was glad to take photos for them (despite the somewhat annoying shutter click) and actually uploaded them all onto her laptop after the show!!

Here are the best

And here are the rest!

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I drove home in the pouring rain, and Matt is STILL at the bakery!

One slice of pizza was not enough dinner, so I went back for more

A little bowl of chewy wheatberries, doughy oats, crunchy cookie crumbles (from the bottom of my bag), a few chias and a cookie in my mouth!

In college [and living in the Berkshires], I’ve been able to see a lot of dance performance, which makes for a pretty good time. It’d be fun to take photographs for a performance – sometimes I can’t focus on just the dancing, so it would be good to have something else to focus on as well.

I hate when I get jipped on food when I go out to eat. That’s why I fear trying new places– never know what the turn out will be. In fact, I got jipped last week on salad and soup that tasted DISGUSTING. $13 dollars down the drain….. 🙁

We have a place called “Slices” that serves just like this! Big slices heated up when ordered. I always get the greek salad slice (Artichokes, peppers, roasted tomatoes, olives, spinach, feta and greek dressing drizzle. Aaaaaamazing.

Kath- I was a little surprised today when learning that my Great Harvest cookie would cost $1.80. The bread is so fantastic that I’ll keep going back but seems a little steep for one cookie (even if they are large). Are all the prices set for each store? Maybe you could make yours a little more reasonable!

Nancy,
All of the owners set their own prices based on their city’s market. They are all thoughtfully decided on – no one is trying to steal your money. I actually think the GH cookies are worth more like $2 because they are huge, made from freshly ground flour, and that, but we have not priced our bakery yet.

I run a small artisan baking business from my home, and let me tell you…those (big!) cookies are definitely worth $2! I use only the highest quality “whole food” (and nearly 100% local) ingredients, and I put much time and love into the things I sell. It’s important to keep prices reasonable, but at the same time, one has to make a profit in order to stay in business too!! 😉
love,
cathy b.

and often not even butter! but some sort of “spread” or cheapy shortening. I sell at local farmers markets (soap) and love eating (and paying) for real food. while I can’t afford to maybe buy a dozen of those cookies, maybe 2 is really all I need when they are good for you and made with love. 🙂 S.

Ill never get tired of looking at good pizza. I even had a slice of it in my hand while reading this. Amys cheese pizza never lets me down.
And Im more of a drop it like its hot girl but Modern dance looks interesting too 🙂

I am a long time reader and I love your blog. But I gotta say that your use of the word “jipped” made me post. “Jipped” is actually “gyped” which is short for “gypsy” as in gypsies cheat people. It’s an ethnic slur that many people use without thinking about, but I get upset when I hear it or read it.

Thank you for bringing this up! I know Kath wasn’t using it in a consciously derogatory way; it’s one of those slurs that most people don’t bother correcting–probably because we don’t have a huge Roma population here. It’s akin to saying “he Jewed me out of…”

Agreed! Kath, don’t know what your policy is on editing posts, but now that you’re in the know, perhaps you’d consider removing an ethnic slur (and a misspelled one at that) from your blog.

Also curious as to why you felt you didn’t receive your money’s worth from Christian’s–you said it was a big slice! Perhaps vegetarian pizza wasn’t the way to go if the intention was to get full off one slice.

Bummer that you had a bad experience at Christian’s, I usually like their stuff, but I have to say that mellow mushroom is one of my favorites in Cville because of their dough! You don’t even have to get a pizza, just got get their dough rolls…yum!